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FOSS book: learn Lisp with fewer parentheses in a day

draketo.de
62 points·by ArneBab·в прошлом месяце·0 comments

OpenAI IPO: preserve your AI engineering innovations!

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2 points·by ArneBab·в прошлом месяце·1 comments

Freenet/Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1506: fix vulnerability, optimize routing, plugins

hyphanet.org
4 points·by ArneBab·5 месяцев назад·0 comments

FOSS book: programming essentials with Guile Scheme

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6 points·by ArneBab·6 месяцев назад·1 comments

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ArneBab
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Summary:

1. takes unlicensed peptides, because the insurance declined to pay for what the doctor prescribed.

2. «“people generally don't try to quantify tail risks.” Among the people I talked to, this is true»

That’s a pretty bad outlook.
ArneBab
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
If you work in the AI industry, it’s time to preserve the engineering innovations you built -- before the risk of a bursting bubble skyrockets.

- Did you build libraries to efficiently analyze specific data formats? - Did you work on lean and fast serialization? - Did you create optimizing orchestration tools for GPU-bound tasks with dependencies? - …

… then please try to get them released as FOSS!

That way you ensure that even if the bubble bursts, the fruits of your labor will survive and their legacy can improve software for decades to come.

(you’re welcome to extend the list in the comments)
ArneBab
·2 месяца назад·discuss
On Hyphanet (the original Freenet) there’s been working group chat via a Hyphanet-backed IRC server for over a decade (the server is named FLIP, the first working version was released in 2013, developed purely on Freenet/Hyphanet).
ArneBab
·2 месяца назад·discuss
There was no public debate, but he did start to talk to devs 18 months before, and the devs told him quite clearly that they strongly object to repurposing the name.

And that repurposing the name would cause lots of damage.
ArneBab
·2 месяца назад·discuss
yes, it chunks files, and aggregates multiple chunks per packet, and pads packets it sends around, so size analysis by the ISP cannot trace the path.
ArneBab
·2 месяца назад·discuss
There actually are: among the darknets, Hyphanet is the only one that has a main use for "deviant data resistant to censorship":

Example publication: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135485651880663...

> What are the content patterns on Freenet? Four patterns were identified. Freenet is (1) an archive of deviant data resistant to censorship (2) a space dominated by content associated with masculinity, (3) a nonmarket space where commercial exchange is non-existent, and (4) an empty space with many requests not returning information, and many flogs abandoned. We asked a third question: How does the analysis of Freenet inform current understandings of hacker culture? Freenet, we suggest, can be understood as a type of digital “wilderness”. It is a singular darknet space, supporting a distinct set of hacker practices

Practically: people in Hyphanet blog about stuff they dare not blog about in the clearnet -- anything from radical politics (from all kinds, left, right, libertarian, …) over personal opinion pages to wilder stuff like magick (yes, in that spelling).

Not to forget the Russian Poet who’s posting daily poems with the goal (as he wrote) that those poems still survive after police knocked at his door.

(besides talk about hyphanet and privacy tech)

So yes: I don’t understand the downvotes either, because it’s a legitimate question with a pretty clear answer: yes.
ArneBab
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Last I checked the Koch Brothers weren’t Israeli. Do read up on them. Oversimplified narratives are bullshit.
ArneBab
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
From the preface:

Why this book?

Providing a concise start, a no-frills, opinionated intro to programming from first define to deploying an application on just 64 pages.

What is Scheme?

Scheme is a programming language — a Lisp — that follows the principle “design not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary”.